Angular UI Tooltip overflowing screen

This solution does not use Angular-UI, just Angular and Bootstrap. Bootstrap is not necessarily required, just simplifies the process a bit:
http://plnkr.co/edit/jLThSTrLUapAG8OLW44m?p=preview

Before I go any further, an alternative to this example would be to add a CSS class with word-wrap and white-space properties to your tooltip class. Using Chrome or Firefox's developer tool, inspect the elements until you locate the classes responsible for setting the tooltip ui; then add these properties to them in your style.css custom CSS document.

Now, for this particular solution, we create a tooltip directive and allow it to take a placement attribute to determine positioning

Angular code, where we destroy the tooltip after we are done to prevent a memory leak:

var app = angular.module('test', []);angular.module('test').directive('tooltip', function () {           return {              restrict: 'A',              link: function (scope, element, attrs) {                 $(element)                         .attr('title', attrs.tooltip)                         .tooltip({placement: attrs.placement});                 scope.$on('$destroy', function() {                    element.tooltip('destroy');                 });              }           }        }) 

CSS Code, where we have to override some of the Bootstrap defaults:

.tooltip-inner {   width: auto;   min-width: 180px;   background-color: #c0d3d2;   color: #000000;   font-weight: 600;   margin: 0 5px 0 -5px;   /*margin-left: -5px;*/}/* Make tooltips opaque */.tooltip.in { opacity: 1.8; filter: alpha(opacity=100); }/*Change tooltip arrow color for bottom placement*/.tooltip.bottom .tooltip-arrow {   top: 0;   left: 50%;   margin-left: -5px;   border-bottom-color: #c0d3d2;   border-width: 0 5px 5px;}

I suspect the popover is inheriting some positioning information from the container it's in. Try setting popover-append-to-body so that it's not in that container any longer.

There is a bug in the current release of Angular UI, so you actually have to set:

popover-append-to-body="true"

But, that will be fixed on the next release so you don't need the ="true" part, just set the attribute.

I had to do a couple of things to get my popover to "work" using uib-popover-template

1. Add the popover-append-to-body="true" attribute.
   • This appends popover to $body instead of the parent element
2. Add the popover-placement="auto top" attribute.
   • It will try to display top, otherwise attempts a more user-friendly placement.
   • I tried with auto top-left but it seems to squish very large amounts of text.
3. Wrapped content in a <div style="max-height: 300px; overflow: auto;">
   • This put a boundary on the container and will add scrolling only when necessary.